Theme From Star Child by Jeff Mills
Theme From Star Child by Jeff Mills runs at 120 BPM in the key of G major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Key
- G major
- Length
- 8:32
- Genre
- techno
- Mood
- brooding
- Vocals
- Instrumental
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The prompt
A brooding techno track with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 120 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under hand percussion with a clap-layered snare and shimmering open hats. Warm analog pads carry the harmony, rhythmic stabs. The arrangement follows through-composed. A lead synth leads, building through repetition. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the lead. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding melodic lead and harmonic warmth, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a euphoric and open atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 120
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- shimmering open hats
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- euphoric and open
- Genre
- techno
- Harmonic instrument
- warm analog pads
- Harmonic style
- rhythmic stabs
- Lead instrument
- a lead synth
- Lead style
- building through repetition
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- brooding
- Percussion
- hand percussion
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- clap-layered
- Sonic focus
- melodic lead
- Secondary focus
- harmonic warmth
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- through-composed
- Textural detail
- subtle bitcrush
About this page
This is an independent acoustic analysis. Tempo and key are measured from the audio; instrumentation and production characteristics are classified against a fixed vocabulary. The source recording is deleted once the analysis finishes, and no lyrics from it are stored. The measurements and classifications are automated estimates, so use them as a starting point and trust your ears.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Jeff Mills. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.